UK IMO Register

This is the online version of the UK IMO Register, a
database of people who have represented the UK in the International Mathematical Olympiad
and other related competitions,
including reserves and Team Leaders and Deputy Leaders (but not
Observers). The Register was originally created in something like its
present form by Tony Gardiner (taking some information from a more
abbreviated list distributed by Margaret Hayman in 1979); I have
applied updates and added information from various sources since 1996.
Note that this is only an extract from the full Register, which is
distributed irregularly in printed form (nominally annually; the last
full distribution was in 1997; subsequent partial distributions have
been made on occasions where Old Olympians have gathered and to recent
teams at the past few Royal Society celebrations, and a general
distribution has been started with copies being sent to people from
1967–1971 in November 2003). Please let me know if you have any
updates or corrections to any entries in the Register. Full printed
copies of the current version can probably be produced for people who
wish to go through it updating information about those Old Olympians
they know. (I do not believe the Register currently has any official
relation to the
UKMT or
BMOS/BMOC, though it may sometimes
be distributed with material associated with them.) An associated
site provides past IMO scores.

International Mathematical Olympiad—Past UK Team Members
(UK IMO Register)

The IMO Register is a database of past UK team members, reserves, Team
Leaders and Deputy Leaders in the International Mathematical Olympiad
(including the unofficial 1980 events when the IMO proper was
cancelled), the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (in which the 2008 and 2015 teams
were joint “United Kingdom and Ireland” teams), the “Romanian Master
of Mathematics” competition, the China Girls’ Mathematical
Olympiad and the European Girls’ Mathematical Olympiad. (Some of the
IMO teams listed for earlier years were considered teams for Great
Britain or England before the participation was fully established as
being by the UK as a whole.) It is
distributed to the people listed with a current
contact address on the Register, nominally annually after each year’s
IMO. The online version contains only some of the information from
the full Register: the summary information for each year, the
information from the Name and Old School columns (most of which may
also be found in Tony Gardiner, The Mathematical Olympiad
Handbook: An introduction to problem solving based on the first 32
British Mathematical Olympiads 1965–1996 (OUP, 1997)), and part of
the information from the Career column where the person concerned is
dead or has expressly approved that information (which may be a subset
of that in the printed Register) for online publication. The master
version of the Register is the TeX source that produces the printed
version and there may be some oddities in the online version and
emailed extracts arising from the automatic conversion process. The
online version also includes an index of names, statistics of
University destinations, links to related sites and recent Team
Leaders’ reports on the IMO (plus some older published reports),
which are not included in the printed version.

While the Register is intended to include all team members, reserves,
Team Leaders and Deputy Leaders, there may be some years where details
of the reserve are not included. Details of people who were going to
be on the team but who were substituted by a reserve are not yet
included, beyond notes under the people who have been reported to
have been reserve in 1970, 1972 and 1973
but ended up competing; I do not know whether this
happened in any other years. Incidental notes are made of people who
withdrew before the team and reserve were separated in 2006, and of a
substitution for RMM 2008; Sherry Jiang was selected for the Balkan
Mathematical Olympiad 2011 but unable to attend and was not replaced
on the team.
As with all other contributions of
information to improve the Register, any information to fill omissions
in this area would be appreciated.

In principle, each person’s entry in the full printed version should include the information
listed below. There are still many gaps and omissions, and uncertain
information that may be out of date or in error; extra information,
whether relating to yourself or to another person listed, is always
welcome, as are corrections to the information presented here.

Full names, with annotations indicating name usually used in
parentheses, if not the first name; a section sign (§) if a special
prize was awarded; an asterisk (*) if a perfect score was
attained; (1), (2) or (3) to indicate gold, silver or bronze medals;
(HM) to indicate an honourable mention (awarded at the IMO since 1988);
and (R) to indicate a reserve or (R1) and (R2) to indicate first and
second reserves. Full names are included for everyone reliably
identified as having gone to Cambridge, but others may not have full
names included yet or may only have a middle initial listed. In at
least one
year (1970), not all medallists are yet identified, and there are no
details of scoring or awards at the unofficial 1980 events. Details of
special prizes and perfect scores may also be incomplete.

School (the last school the person had been a student at, as
of the IMO or other competition). This information is omitted for
Leaders and Deputy
Leaders, but is present for all students.

A brief career summary, starting with where the person first
went to University, and listing a sequence of successive universities,
colleges, jobs, etc., with dates where available. This should include
at least one contact postal address, which may or may not be a home
address. Other information listed may include:

A parental home address in parentheses, commonly but not
always the address as of the IMO or other competition. If another
current contact address
is included and this address is no longer current, it should generally
be removed (but may not have been consistently removed in the past).

PhD or DPhil thesis titles and dates are included where
known.

Distinctions such as Fields Medals and Fellowships of the
Royal Society are listed.

An email address should be included if available; more than
one can be listed. A World Wide Web home page may also be listed.

Please keep me up to date with your movements. Fields Medals will
probably be noticed without my needing to be told of them; other
achievements may not.

British participation in the 1967 IMO was a consequence of a visit paid by
Professor Walter Hayman (Imperial College) to Moscow in 1966. Walter
co-opted his wife Margaret (Putney High School for Girls), who for
many years chaired the committee of the Mathematical Association that
organised both the BMO and the predecessor of the current UK SMC (the
National Mathematics Contest).

The primary source of information used is information supplied by the
people listed about themselves and others. Further information has
been taken from various web sites, including online CVs provided by
some people listed, and the published Cambridge University List of
Members (which provided most of the full names listed) and some other
such published registers.

This table is based on the best information currently available on
the Register as to University destinations, which is in a few cases
uncertain. Team members and reserves are counted, exactly once
irrespective of the number of times someone was on the team or was a
reserve; Leaders and Deputy Leaders who were not team members are not
counted. The “team members only” column gives
corresponding figures where team members but not reserves are counted;
during the period when the squad of team plus reserve has been
selected but not yet separated into team and reserve, all people in
that most recent squad are counted in this column (as not yet at
University).

People who have changed name (through marriage or otherwise) are
indexed under both names. This index only covers entries on the
Register, not participation of the people on the Register in IMOs in
other capacities (e.g., as Observers, Coordinators and organisers) or
in connection with other countries.